OMB Fines CD-R King Over Blank Discs
I’ve been saying it for years: the Optical Media Act is a bad idea. Part of that bad idea: import permits for fucking pieces of plastic. The Optical Media Board (OMB) has ordered CD-R King, one of the country’s biggest suppliers of optical media and related technology products, to pay P1.5 million in administrative penalties. […]Click here to continue reading "OMB Fines CD-R King Over Blank Discs"...OMB Fines CD-R King Over Blank Discs
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JC: As per section 26 of the Optical Media Act, whatever the OMB does to optical media it can do to magnetic media. That means they can, in fact, require licenses for hard drives. Filipinos may soon have to pay a lot more for computers.
Bouken: There’s no money in giving people access to technology. There’s plenty of money in giving record companies access to legislation.
optical and magnetic drives eh? so does that mean they don’t care about flash based drives?
Damn it! Why them? The Optical Media Act was nothing than a law that is good for capitalists (record companies and the recording industry) and bad for consumers (everybody else). They shoul’ve given a big time Rider Kick in their backsides for such a lame act. No wonder I hate them right now!
Spidamang: Good point. We might all have to switch to flash memory.
That would make a really crazy news story: a whole country switching to flash memory because of a badly-written law.
Lusanto: I was on the technical working group for the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000. Now that’s a pretty good law.
The Optical Media Act of 2003 was passed without sufficient input from the IT community. That’s why it’s such a crappy law.
sir mike: yes sir mike i know what u mean ugh T_T
spidamang and lusanto: i just hope it wont like this hay sure flash memory is ok but why? dam optical media just made the lamest decision ever